Ccna routing and Switching Complete Study Guide

Command

Meaning

Ctrl+A

Moves your cursor to the beginning of the line

Ctrl+E

Moves your cursor to the end of the line

Esc+B

Moves back one word

Ctrl+B

Moves back one character

Ctrl+F

Moves forward one character

Esc+F

Moves forward one word

Ctrl+D

Deletes a single character

Backspace

Deletes a single character

Ctrl+R

Redisplays a line

Ctrl+U

Erases a line

Ctrl+W

Erases a word

Ctrl+Z

Ends configuration mode and returns to EXEC

Tab

Finishes typing a command for you

Another really cool editing feature you need to know about is the automatic scrolling of 

long lines. In the following example, the command I typed reached the right margin and 

automatically moved 11 spaces to the left. How do I know this? Because the dollar sign [

$

] 

is telling me that the line has been scrolled to the left:

Switch#

config t

Switch(config)#